Today, fourteen percent of all Americans have a tattoo with thirty-six percent of them being between the ages 30 to 45. Here on the SouthSide where we have almost as many tattoo parlors as bars, I see all kinds of people streaming in and out of them for more and more tattoos.

But seeing these people, watching the resulting FAU film and listened to the stories, try as I may, I can’t seem to make any sense of telling a story in permanent ink directly on your skin. What chutzpah!